CARRY-LE-ROUET, France (AP) -- Remembering her artistry and activism, hundreds of mourners crowded a church in southern France on Friday to bid farewell to jazz singer Nina Simone.

Nina Simone blazed a trail as an often-political jazz singer at a time when women entertainers—especially Black ones—were discouraged from highlighting racial injustice and other unpleasant truths in ...

The luminary musician Roberta Flack was not in the 2004 edition of “The Rolling Stone Album Guide.” But on this episode of “Cannonball,” Wesley Morris, the host, makes the case for why she would be in ...